Your highlights from The Circle Tour

Love's The Only Rule at the July Meadowlands show. Despite the crappy sound and Jon's admitted vocal "cobwebs," that particular song worked big time. Maybe it's because the lights were down, the tempo was slower, Jon's voice was raspy, he came closer to the audience, and I was on my second beer, but it was as though I was suddenly having a private conversation with him.

And at the risk of getting mushy, I must also say that re-connecting with Dry County and Jovitalk has been a highlight, too. I've enjoyed being back so much I keep forgetting to rejoin BSWJBJ even though I finally have the money to spare!

I know my turn for this tour hasn't arrived yet but on one occasion of watching these days acoustic at the 02 on 6/10 on youtube i just broke down and bawled my eyes out. i felt like i was there and just hearing those beginning notes i lost it. the power of bon jovi resonates even through youtube!

It’s great that you had a chance to see 14 shows including all 12 shows at the O2. If only I lived in London I would also see all of them. I had the feeling they would be special and they proved to be exactly that. But I’m happy for you, no one will take those memories from you now.

My pleasure. It’s a great feeling to share something you love with others knowing that this will make them happy too

Exactly, there’s only one thing that’s better than KTF live and that’s …KTF/Sympathy

PS. Congrats for 1000 posts

Haha thanks.
Didnt even see it myself until I read your reply

I salute you,
TS

Let's get my Lowlights out of the way first

- Didn't see enough shows
- Not enough Circle Songs for me especially LTOR not played at my last show which was Boston
-Jon's tendency to cater to the "casual" vs "diehards"
-KTF needs to have jungle noises and Sympathy
-Kid Rock-Thank God that's over

Highlights

-Meeting new friends and being able to share concert experiences with them
- Having seats so close to the band enabled me to experience things I never thought possible
-Hearing Only Lonely for the first time in my life in Philly
-Hearing and seeing IBTFY with Jon on vocals for the first time in years, only a few short feet in front of me and I don't count the TLFR version from the HAND Tour, crying
-LTOR my favorite song off the Circle
-Die for You, Always and Dry County in NMS

My personal highlights so far:

- Sant Fe
- 10 seconds of In And Out Of Love
- LYHOM (Jon on Vocals)
- These Days (Original)
- (It's Hard) Letting You Go

Oh, and I've found a new love for In These Arms

I've just rewatched It's Hard Letting You Go on Youtube, and decided I'm prepared to forgive for everything he's done in the last decade that I disagree with. Phenomenal performance, and easily my favourite song of the two shows I saw

Highlights for me from The O2 shows I did:

-Thorn In My Side on the 17th

So glad to finally get to hear it complete with the extended outtro. Incredible, the fact it came on the night I was upgraded to the front made it even better as I enjoyed that night immensely.

-Always & Dry County O2 Arena Night 2

After a vanilla night 1, was waiting to see what they pulled out of the hat, and they didnt disappoint. After doing the speech for Daves Tony Awards, as a thank you they kicked into DC which was epic. But the fact it reached 11pm and I was expecting Wanted- and instead Tico thumped into Always, I was ecstatic. The night seemed to go on forever, and again a great performace and ending of the song.

Bad Medicine- O2 Night 3

Nothing special about this song, but it was a concert I went with a mate who had such a great time so it was a more special concert for me. The fact is isnt a Jovi fan, I drag him there in exchange for him taking me to Muse, and he enjoyed the gig so much he bought another ticket for a later show, and hes done 3 Jovi gigs with me before so it shows how much of a leap these concerts are to previous tours.

-Santa Fe O2 Night 11

Obvious really. Some didnt like the performance, but being there when they performed it was spine chilling. When Jon mentioned the Young Guns record, I still had this song near the bottom of the list of what could be played.

Intro- Every night

No matter how many times I went over the course of the 2 weeks, the intro would never get old and never fail to get me excited. Glad I got to hear 3 different openers although Blood on Blood seemed to work the best.

Hey God O2 Night 3

Finally got to hear this one, sounded brilliant. The crowds were very receptive of 90s stuff- TD was huge here, as was Crossroad so thats why they get plenty of outings. SIBSN always got massive reactions.

-I'll Be There For You, O2 Arena Night 12

Many good performances of this one, but this one on the last night knocked it totally out of the park. Jon absolutely nailed it all over the shop, it was such a pleasure to hear.

-These Days & It's Hard Letting You Go, O2 Arena Night 12

I had lost all hope of a decent setlist on the last night, still enjoyed it by my tweets were getting a bit moody that they werent going out with a bang. Aside from Blaze & Bullet, everything was the same old. When Jon did Wanted, and then started singing Prayer I was actually angry that they were going to leave it this way. I didnt need to worry, thanks to the banners Jon stopped and went into TD. But more incredibly, straight into IHLYG. It was an unbelieveable endless encore, that I lost all track of time as it ended around 11.20pm. I was mesmerised by the encore that all negative thoughts of the poor standard setlist were forgotten. They should do this more often- get away with a samey normal set if they wow us at the end.

I keep adding more and more so I am going to stop there. I had an unbelieveable few weeks doing 8 O2 shows and dont regret it at all. It was a shame that I missed Something To Believe In & Wild Is The Wind, and also the lack of Circle songs, but that aside BJ still managed to blow me away and I will always fondly remember the summer of Jovi 2010.